Blog Posts
Don't P Down My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Claims about improvement in Iowa stream phosphorus are exaggerated.
Drain Brain
Monday, October 14, 2019
Discussion of "Nature Sustainability" journal article on expansion of farmed drainage in Iowa
MMPs are CRAP
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Discussion of how manure management plans (MMPs) are not protective of water quality.
Fishing in the Rain
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Nitrogen budgets for Iowa watersheds and how they relate to legacy nitrate studied by Dr. Kim Van Meter of University of Illinois Chicago.
It's Their Way or the Highway
Monday, September 16, 2019
Agriculture's resistance to a stream buffer law.
Middle of Nowhere is Downstream from Somewhere
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Condition of Lower Iowa River.
Demand Clean Water Now
Monday, August 26, 2019
Guest editorial that first appeared in Iowa Ideas Magazine is reposted here. Essay discusses nitrate pollution, altered hydrology, and farm conservation in Iowa.
Quasky
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Essay about fishing with newspaper columnist Orlan Love and the Wapsipinicon and Maquoketa Rivers of eastern Iowa.
Pagination